Quotes About Existential Anxiety

#1. A person experiences anxiety when they realize their insignificance in the cosmic field, which present state of angst can exacerbated by other confusing life questions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. People always tell me either A. you love him. B. you hate him. My usual answer? C. All of the above.

Anne Roiphe

#3. There's a real existential anxiety at having to exist not just in a generalised social framework, but a capitalist social framework.

Autre Ne Veut

#4. And that other self, who watches me from the distance of decades,
what will she say? Will she look at me with hatred or with compassion,
I whose choices made her what she will be?

Jane Hirshfield

#5. His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

Samuel Johnson

#6. People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

Woody Allen

#7. Mistakes are lessons, and lessons are gifts. Examine them.

Jen Knox

#8. But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.

Ed Bradley

#9. Our time on earth is entrusted to us for a specific mission.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. When it is over, if it is over, this war will have horrible consequences. Instead of having one Bin Laden, we will have 100 Bin Ladens.

Hosni Mubarak

#11. Get sleep....get sharp!!

Cary S. Kart

#12. It never ends, the bruise
of being

Kevin Young

#13. Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.

Dogen

#14. Existential anxiety of doubt drives the person toward the creation of certitude of systems of meaning, which are supported by tradition and authority. Neurotic anxiety builds a narrow castle of certitude which can be defended with the utmost certainty.

Paul Tillich

#15. [As a kid] I did enjoy making people laugh but I was also attracted to funny people. I'm [still] quite happy to not be the one trying to make other people laugh. I'm happy laughing at someone else. I enjoy laughing and I'll happily be the one just laughing all night if you can make me laugh.

Ricky Gervais

#16. Women think black is the most flattering color, but they're wrong. Pink adds a cosmetic-like radiance and warmth. Black drains the skin of color; pink delights the eye.

Oscar De La Renta

#17. By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.

Andy Partridge

#18. A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to grow spiritually. They use their emotions to show them how to create constructive and healthy and joyful consequences instead of destructive and unhealthy and painful consequences.

Gary Zukav

#19. We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.

Joko Beck

#20. When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Terry Pratchett